City Under-18s coach Jason Farndon said: "We played really well and I was really happy with the performance.

"We had two Under-16s start today and brought on Tom Bayliss who is also an Under-16, and they all did really well which is encouraging for next year.

"We were on our knees at times as a lot of players had to do a coaching course yesterday as part of their education but they kept going and rose to the task.

"The 3-5-2 system isn't preferred but it seems to work and special credit has to go to Jacob Whitmore who was outstanding today. He not only won the penalty but never stopped throughout the game and I'd love to read his GPS stats as I'm sure they'd be extremely high."